The Left at it . . . ====== By Thomas M. Johnson Jr. April 16, 2015 7:07 p.m. ET A popular narrative since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 posits that corporations have displaced political and religious minorities as the principal beneficiaries of First Amendment rights. There supposedly has been a “corporate takeover” of the First Amendment, as Harvard Law School’s... Read more
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Ambushing Employers’ Speech Rights
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Labor, Law, The LeftWhatever the Ayatollah Wants
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Iran, Obama, Radical IslamObama keeps giving “us” away. ======= April 19, 2015 5:36 p.m. ET Give Ayatollah Ali Khamenei credit for knowing his opposition. Two weeks ago the Supreme Leader declared that Western sanctions had to be lifted immediately as a condition of a nuclear deal. And sure enough, on Friday President Obama said Iran would get significant sanctions relief immediately upon signing a deal. The Ayatollah... Read more
Cops are doing their Job.
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, PolicingProbably not “news worthy enough”. =========== Day in and day out, the great majority of cops do their job the right way. April 19, 2015 5:17 p.m. From host Bob Schieffer’s weekly commentary for CBS ’s “Face the Nation,” April 19: The best training to be a reporter or anything else is to work the police beat, because every story you cover is the worst... Read more
The Incredible Raisin Heist
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | UncategorizedIn the USA? Yes, right here at home. Socialism at its best! ===== April 20, 2015 7:02 p.m. Stealing is illegal, unless the government is the thief. On Wednesday the Supreme Court will hear a case on whether the government can seize a chunk of a business’s product to regulate prices. This is a big one. Like much government mischief, Horne v. USDA... Read more
Notable & Quotable: George Will
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Clinton, Losing Freedom, US Constitutiono o o ==== April 20, 2015 8:08 p.m. From columnist George F. Will’s keynote address at the inaugural Disinvitation Dinner, hosted in New York City on April 15 by the William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale to honor those whose invitations to speak at U.S. universities were retracted because of their views: Free speech has never been, in the history of our... Read more
Israel Alone
April 22 | Posted by mrossol | Israel, Middle EastSad day for sure. ==== By Bret Stephens April 20, 2015 7:37 p.m. ET 1125 COMMENTS Recent conversations with senior Israeli officials are shot through with a sense of incredulity. They can’t understand what’s become of U.S. foreign policy. They don’t know how to square Barack Obama’s promises with his policies. They fail to grasp how a president who pledged to work toward the abolition... Read more
